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More Security Tips For Passwords
Creating a secure password is important. Keeping it safe is just as important. Before we jump right in, though, I want to explain that I am using the word "tips" here because it's common for blog posts to include it. It makes it easier for readers to find my post....
How To Create A Secure Password You Remember
A secure password includes lower case letters (a, b, c, etc.), upper case letters (D, E, F, etc.), numbers (2, 4, 9, etc.) and special characters (%, &, ?, etc.). When you get a secure password from someone else, like the original wi-fi password for your internet...
How to Get Great Advice from Chatty
Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a council of people you could ask for advice on anything? I first learned about this concept in the book Refuse to Choose by the magnificent Barbara Sher. My edition of the book was from 2008. I put together my council of people and...
How to Compress Image Files
When we talk about the size of digital images, we are actually talking about two things. On the one hand there is the width and the height of an image. For digital images, we usually measure this size in pixels. Pixels are tiny dots in different colours. Which colour?...
Digital Images
Any time you take a picture with a digital device, like your camera, phone or tablet, it is translated into pixels. Pixels are tiny dots of colour. The more dots, the clearer the picture. Since in the digital world each dot is information, more pixels also mean more...
Organize and Search for Files
When I learned to code websites, naming and naming conventions was a part of the curriculum. In the code, you need to reference the exact file name with the type of file so that the program can find it. Now that I no longer write my own code, I still use what I...
What are Files?
When you think of files, you might imagine them like the folders in the image above, as in one file per topic, or maybe for a person if it is a personnel file, for example. In the digital world, a file is a package of information. These packages come in many different...
Colours
Colours come in hues, tones, shades and tints. How they are created is different for digital and print colours. To make sure your digital devices and printer show exactly the colour you choose, they are represented with colour codes.The basicsLet's start with the...
What is Search Engine Optimization?
When was the last time you googled something? Were you happy with the search results you got? Have you ever wondered how search engines, like Google and DuckDuckGo decide which results to show you? If yes, you have come to the right post. Search engines crawl...
What is Engagement?
Engagement online means how much time you spend looking at a website or a post and how you react to the content. Do you read a post or watch a video? Do you stay until the end or click away sooner? And do you hit the like/thumbs-up or any other button to express...
What Are Algorithms?
Algorithms are long mathematical equations. In computer science these equations are used to process data in a specific way and to solve problems. Most websites collect data every time a user visits their site. This means the people who own the site, the website host...